How much does an electric blanket cost per month in Colorado?

About 54.9¢ a month, assuming 80 W at a 50% duty cycle, 8 hours a day, 120 days a year at 17.17¢/kWh.

How many kilowatt-hours does an electric blanket use?

Roughly 38 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.04 kWh for every hour it runs.

Is that expensive compared with other states?

Colorado has the 22nd most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $6.97 a year.

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Cost to run an electric blanket in Colorado (August 2026 rates)

At 17.17¢ per kilowatt-hour — Colorado's average residential price in August 2026 — running an electric blanket costs $6.59 a year. That is 5% less than the national average of $6.97. Colorado's residential rate is up 5.9% from August 2025, which moves this appliance from $6.22 to $6.59 a year.

Per hour: 0.7¢
Per day of use: 5.5¢
Per month: 54.9¢
Per year: $6.59

Assumption: 80 W at a 50% duty cycle, 8 hours a day, 120 days a year — 38 kWh a year. Queen-size, medium setting, thermostatic. Use the calculator to swap in the numbers from your own model.

How Colorado compares

Colorado pays 17.17¢/kWh, the 22nd most expensive residential electricity of the 51 U.S. jurisdictions EIA reports. For this appliance that works out to 38.0¢ less a year than the typical U.S. household pays for the same use. Running the same electric blanket costs $4.88 a year in Nevada and $18.12 in Hawaii, so where you live changes this bill by $13.23 a year.

State	Rate	Per month	Per year
Indiana	17.02¢	54.5¢	$6.54
Iowa	17.06¢	54.6¢	$6.55
Colorado	17.17¢	54.9¢	$6.59
Minnesota	17.20¢	55.0¢	$6.60
Virginia	17.64¢	56.4¢	$6.77

States ranked by average residential price, cheapest first. See all 51 states for an electric blanket.

What else costs about the same in Colorado

Vacuum cleaner$6.18 a year in CO Electric lawn mower$7.14 a year in CO Toaster$6.02 a year in CO

Cutting the number down

Heating the bed instead of the bedroom is one of the best ratios of comfort to kilowatt-hours in the house.
Preheating for 15 minutes and switching off at bedtime captures most of the benefit for a fraction of the runtime.

Questions

How much does an electric blanket cost per month in Colorado?: About 54.9¢ a month, assuming 80 W at a 50% duty cycle, 8 hours a day, 120 days a year at 17.17¢/kWh.
How many kilowatt-hours does an electric blanket use?: Roughly 38 kWh a year under these assumptions, or 0.04 kWh for every hour it runs.
Is that expensive compared with other states?: Colorado has the 22nd most expensive average residential rate in the country, so this appliance costs less here than the U.S. average of $6.97 a year.